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LEAD: JAY NEWMAN, who just moved to Miami from Philadelphia, found himself digging through the wastebasket recently in search of a discarded letter that might give him a clue to the ZIP code of his new office. No, Mr. Newman wasn't losing his mind. Just his ZIP codes, bank machine personal identification number, cellular phone number, office extensions, not to mention his new home address.
LEAD: Several companies are racing to develop new types of bifocal contact lenses as the postwar baby boom generation advances into the years when an eye doctor is likely to suggest bifocal eyeglasses.
LEAD: DR. WILLIAM P. CASTELLI is the first man in his family to live to the age of 50 without a heart attack. He credits the Framingham Heart Study, of which he is now the medical director, with saving his life. He wants to do the same for everyone else.
LEAD: As hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in Beijing and Shanghai for the ouster of Prime Minister Li Peng, China's top leaders met in secret in the capital on Tuesday and appeared to make significant progress in breaking the political deadlock.
LEAD: A Japanese company is stepping up to challenge Nintendo for a piece of the $3.5 billion American market for home video games.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 24, 1989, covering May 24, 1989.
Madonna
Fine Young Cannibals
Guns N' Roses
Soundtrack
Tone-Loc
1989G-Eazy, American rapper[†]
Gerald Earl Gillum, better known by his stage name G-Eazy, is an American rapper. Based in Oakland, California, he began his career in 2006 and released two independent studio albums before signing with RCA Records to release his third album and major label debut, These Things Happen (2014). It peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 and spawned the single "I Mean It", which received triple platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and marked his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100. His fourth album, When It's Dark Out (2015), was met with similar commercial success and spawned the single "Me, Myself & I", which peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. His fifth album, The Beautiful & Damned (2017), saw continued success and matched These Things Happen on the Billboard 200. It was led by the single "No Limit", which peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and remains his highest-charting song. His sixth album, These Things Happen Too (2021), was met with a commercial decline, peaking at number 19 on the Billboard 200. His seventh album, Freak Show (2024), failed to chart in any known territory.
1989Andrew Jordan, English race car driver[†]
Andrew Phillip Jordan is a British racing driver, who has driven in the British Touring Car Championship. He was the 2013 British Touring Car Champion.
1989Kalin Lucas, American basketball player[†]
Kalin Jay Lucas is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Michigan State University.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]